The teachings of Ajahn Suchart.
9 July 2024
Question: How can we deal with the frequent negative thoughts and the subtle feeling of fear (that comes from fear of sickness and death) in our mind? How do we let go of this fear?
Than Ajahn: First, you just recite a mantra, keep reciting a mantra, ‘buddho, buddho, buddho’.
When you recite a mantra, you cannot think about your fear. So try to develop this ability–reciting a mantra–so that you can stop all your negative thoughts when they come up. Once you can control or stop your negative thoughts, the next thing you can do is to direct your mind to think truthfully. Like, if you are afraid of death, you have to think that the body will have to die, but the one who is afraid of the death doesn’t die, that’s the mind. So you separate the body from the mind and you know that you are not the body and therefore you will not be afraid of the death of the body: this is thinking truthfully. But before you can think truthfully, you first have to stop thinking falsely. All your fear of death is false thoughts.
First you have to stop the negative thinking and once you can stop it then you can direct the mind to think truthfully.
Dhamma in English, Nov 24, 2016.
By Ajahn Suchart Abhijāto
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